LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 942, 17 January 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs Jas. Symons, of Hastings, is spending a holiday among old friends in Foxton. Board is wanted for married couple with three young children from Saturday till Monday next. The Hospital and Charitable Aid Board invite tenders for the supply of charitable aid rations. The Duke of Connaught’s appointment as Governor-General has been officially notified, states a cable message. The Duke will arrive in Canada in September. There will be an open-air service at the Beach to-morrow evening, at 7 o’clock. Members of All Saints’ choir will lead the singing, and the vicar will conduct: the service. Mr C. F. Redman, late subeditor of the Wairarapa Daily Times, who has been spending a holiday in Foxton, has been offered and lias accepted the position of editor of the Waitemala Post, Auckland. A cable message from Vienna slates that a lunatic swallowed fourteeu spoons. He was examined by Rontgen rays, and operated upon and the spoons extracted. They weighed two and three-quarter pounds. The patient is recovering. In the billiard match against' Higgle, of 8000 up, George Gray, the youug Australian now in kingland, has run out, with his opponent at 4000. Gray’s latter scoring included breaks of 634 and 749. Higgle made a 394 break. At the Provincial Championship Amateur Athletic meeting, at Wellington, on Saturday afternoon, R. Opie, of Canterbury, won the 100 yards and 220 yards events, his times being 10 i-3sec., and 23 3-ssec. J. H. Berry, of Masterton, won the 75 yards Handicap from scratch in 7 and was beaten by three yards in the Hundred. Messrs Brown and Chalk Bros., notify that they have commenced business as market gardeners and that fresh vegetables will be delivered to any part of the town twice weekly. Orders left with Mr M. H. Walker will be promptly attended to. Support a white New Zealand by dealing with your own countrymen. The firm’s gardens are situated on No. 1 Bine, Foxton. A religious revival of a farreaching character is in progress amongst the Maoris of Taharoa, in the Kawhia district, and some very curious occurrences are reported. It is said that the Natives now expect a providential supply of food, and are passively waiting the provisioning of the settlement by scriptural ravens, as in the case of Elijah. They are holding daily services with an extraordinary mixture of ancient and modern t rites.

Cordials Is per bottle at Walker's, raspberry, lemon, pine apple, lime in ice.*

His Grace Archbishop Redwood is to pay a flying visit to Foxton and will arrive this evening. The picnic in connection with All Saints’ Sunday School will be held on Mr W. Barber’s property, Motuiti, to-morrow. A beautiful assortment ot electroplate goods, brooches, engagement rings, etc., at Parkes’ jewellery establishment, Main St.* On onr fourth page to-day will be found the following interesting reading matter: “In New Guinea,” “Johnson’sTetters,” and “Strange Heredity.” Stewart Scott, a travelling book agent, was fined and costs, at Hokitika yesterday, for common assault on a married woman, a more serious charge being withdrawn. Messrs W. F. Dnrward and Co., Ltd., of Palmerston North, are at present holding a great end-of-season sale. Great bargains are offering in every department. A few prices are advertised in this issue to which attention is directed. The Rev R. Kerr, of Warwick (Darling Downs), Queensland, is paying a brief visit to Foxton, and is the guest of his old friend, the Rev G. K. Aitkeu. Mr Kerr is very favourably impressed with what he has seen so far of this country. He intends visiting Rotorua next week. We have previously published warnings to local fishermen against netting and offering for sale undersized flounders. We are reliably informed, however, that large quantities of undersized fish are caught every night and marketed to residents of the town and seasiders. The police have been informed of this illegal practice, but this does not appear to deter the culprits. We understand the Minister for Marine is being communicated with on the subject. A man named Hanify, while playing cricket on the Newtown Park, Wellington, on Saturday, met with a peculiar and rather painful accident. He had bowled and the ball was hit back' hard tc him. Hanify, in endeavouring to catch the ball, moved to one side, bending his leg and throwing his weight suddenly on it. His ankle was put out, and the leg broken just above it. An event eagerly looked forward to by the ladies in this district will take place on Thursday morning, at Q a.m., when the doors of the Bon Marche, Palmerston N., will be opened to a crowd of buyers eager to participate in the great advantages offered by the Half-Yearly Sale at C. M. Ross and Go’s. Year by year these sales become more popular, as ladies realise that every article of passing fashion will be at bargain prices, and they make a point of being there in time. An inset is issued herewith by C. M. Ross and Co., giving an idea of the bargains offered. “ One cannot read without emotion the report that American Fpiscopaliaus are going to expunge ‘from Greenland’s icy mountains ’ from the official hymn book on the ground that the sentiments are superannuated,” says the Irish Times. “If this testis to be applied, how many of our favourite hymns would be left ? It is said that particular exception is taken to the phrase about Ceylon, ‘ where every prospect pleases, and only man is vile,’ which is described as a hasty generalisation founded on the fact that a Cingalese hotelkeeper once presented Bishop Heher with an exorbitant bill.” Mrs Stewart, wife of Mr Peter Stewart, of Levin, died on Friday. She was one of the eat Best settlers in the Manawatn County, and with her husband came to Levin from Palmerston North about twenty years ago (says the Chronicle). It was in 1853 that she arrived in New Zealand (at Wellington) and she lived at Dunedin until 1868. The late John Dalrymple, of Waitatapia, Bulls, was her brother, and with her death the last of her generation of Dalrymplesdies, though numerous younger members survive. It is well over fifty years since the deceased lady first landed in Otago, a province in which her husband experienced his earliest New Zealand activities. “New Zealand offers a multiplicity of attractions,” said an officer of one of the Home steamers now in Auckland, apropos of the present epedemic of desertion. The climate, social life, and the New Zealand beer so deeply impress the average sailor that he is extremely loth to leave. This is a veritable paradise to him, the surroundings being positively alluring to a mariner just off a six weeks’ voyage. Yes,” he added reflectively, “we do sometimes have trouble, and there is generally beer at the bottom of it. At Home onr men go ashore, and, after drinking the best portion of a gallon, return in an amicable mood. In New Zealand they probably consume the same amount, but instead of returning they proceed to paint your peaceful cities red, and the result is disastrous to both themselves and their employers.” ATTACKED WHILE WORKING. ” While at my work one morning, I was attacked with severe griping pains in the stomach,” writes Mr David Howard, Sale, Vic. “ 1 tried Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and am pleased to say that it cured me in a few minutes. Since then I have had several attacks, and have always used Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy with good results.” For sale everywhere. — Advt. Walker’s selling good dining chairs 5s each to make room for fresh stock to arrive.*

A meeting of the Montoa Drainage Board will be held on Thursday, 19th hist., at 7.45 p.m. T Business : To deal with tenders. We would once again remind our readers that the nominations close to-morrow for the ent:''~-« in. connection with the Horoa eitua a A. and P. Show at Levin About 150 stands of shesrilHfl machines in the Gisborne district® are estimated to have boon ip® stalled during the present "on. ■ Several ten and twelve-st; stallations have been made .1 smaller station-holders. ’ Messrs Collinson and :• • a Palmerston North, are advt" , 'V their prices of jam jars ar J rings. This firm import ji goods direct from the factory , the thrifty housewife should take 1 vadautage of their keen prices.* J Mr C. A. W. Monckton, ‘ Otaki, has been definitely chos as the Opposition candidate j the Otaki seat at next electio. % says the Otaki Mail. If tin I report is correct, Mr Byron Brow I has been “turned down.” I Professor See, of the Unit* > 1 States Observatory at Mare Islai California, states that he has ; 1 ceived messages from scienti ® throughout the world, agreeir ■ with his theory that Venus . inhabited. The dominance of woma seems to be made mote manife qj every day. The other morning motor bicycle, with a side-cat; attached, passed along the Ferry ) road, Christchurch. Sitting in the side-car was a man, and on the motor bicycle a woman, the latter assuming control of engine, vehicle, and passenger. 'i It is understood that trouble h; , I arisen in connection with the ne coinage, which may delay -j issue. The design of the King J head has been executed iu t high relief, a defect which Wj ® prevent stacking at the mint a: ’ 1 the banks. Probably a new 6 ;fj will have to be struck. It seems as though Messrs Collinson and Cunninghame Ltd., in-. tend making a big bid to securajM their desired goal. That is to make™ their sale a huge success and a record in the history of the firm. The few prices quoted on page three clearly indicates that all classes of goods must move out quickly.* A message to the Dominion from Rangataua states that ReliefGuide D. O. Snow has just returned from Mount Ruapehu, having seen Mrs Thompson and party, under Guide E. H. Snow, safely over the summit. This is the first party to succeed so far on the through trip from Rangataua over the whole chain of mountains in the Tongariro National Park. There were thirty-two footb& deaths last year in the Unite Stales understood to be the. ” highest figure ever recorded, in spite of the fact that certain specially deadly devices had been banished from the game. The permanently or temporary disabled are not counted. This j : ifs season opens with a radical!} revised code of rules, the result of a public outcry louder than any which the manslaughter of revious years has raise 1 The foundation of the preswy- , ing and tinning plant at the V i- j ngawa meat works has alren y ’ been laid. Mr Tresider, at present occupying the position of head of , the preserving department ot tl Wellington Meat Export Compai has been engaged to fill a simlk position at the Waiugawa work, and assumes his new duties abon the middle of the month. H expected that the skin-curing pla will be ready for use in the coin.of a fortnight. About half a doz. additional hands will be emplo’’ ■ in this branch of the works. The Rotorua ranger will probably, and with some justification, claim that he is no respecter of persons. In the course of IE official duties on the lake the othc. day, the ranger caught the Hoi Cyril Ward (brother of Lot Dudley, Governor - General (■’ Australia), Mrs Ward and party, fishing without a license. It appears that their agent in Rotorua had taken out their licenses duly, but had forgotten to bring them along on the fishing cruise. Explanations and mutual regrets prevented the confiscation of the finny tribe. A witness who was being crossexamined iu a taxi-tab case at the Magistrate’s Court, Christchurch, on Friday, was asked by counsel it he had had anything to drink to-day. He replied with cheerful alacrity: “I’ve had none, but I will have one when I leave here.” ■ A witness in another case said he sometimes rode his bicycle at three or four miles an hour, and at < other times at nine or ten miles. He admitted frankly that the time, he rode at three or four miles an hour was when he was going to work, and rode faster going home. J. J. Meikle, addressing a number of people from the Port Chalmers baud rotunda last week, went over the well-trodden ground of his grievances and his claim to larger compensation than has yet been given to him. He announced that after the completion of his , present tour of the Dominion in I support of his claims he would gc J to London to tell “the Britisl 1 public, from the foot of theNelsou monument, where New Zealand was, and what it was,” and D'* 3 he would go to America iu regard to a legacy left by a relative. He further intimated that he would be back in New Zealand iu time for the general election, when he would make re-election difficult for some members of Parliament whose action iu regard to his claims for compensation he strongly cou« demned.

Walker’s jellies 3 for is, take some beating. Try them. ' It is officially announced that King George and Queen Mary will visit Calcutta next winter. A general meeting of the local Horticultural Society will be held in the Council Chamber on Friday evening next. There are to he found at M. Hamer’s, ladies’ dresses and costumes, fur boas and sunshades all at reduced prices for one month'*. As a result ol the recent amendment to the Municipal Corporations Act a number of Borough Councillors in different parts of the Dominion have found it necessary to resign their seats. Mr Parkes, the locai watchmaker and jeweller is opening up a splendid assortment of gold, silver and electro-plate goods suitable for presentations. Watch the window displays.*